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YouTube Says New 5-Second Video Load Delay Is Supposed to Punish Ad Blockers, Not Firefox Users (www.404media.co)

submitted 11 months ago by stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Firefox users are reporting an 'artificial' load time on YouTube videos. YouTube says it's part of a plan to make people who use adblockers "experience suboptimal viewing, regardless of the browser they are using."

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[–] Guster@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I'm using Firefox but is it not possible to block ads in chrome too?

[–] Got_Bent@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

If they haven't already, Google is in the process of disabling ad block extensions on all chrome based browsers. There have been a ton of posts about this on Lemmy.

Random article that came up on search

https://www.androidauthority.com/google-chrome-manifest-v3-changes-3386506/

[–] Ignisnex@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Not when they roll out manifest v3

[–] kras@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

It won't be possible in the future. It should be happening soonish if I'm remembering correctly. There's a change to how add-ons will be allowed to work in chrome.